Only down east. We never put that much in ours...maybe 1/4 cup per gallon.
Well, I was stretching the recipe...just a little bit...
My Mama used a full cup of sugar for a half-gallon of tea; twice what I used! The kids loved it, of course, when she’d come to visit. They had to get used to the not so sweet stuff whenever she’d go home, but they still always begged me to make “Mimi Tea”.